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- * TODO file for GNU sharutils
-
- Tell <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu> if you feel like volunteering for any
- of these ideas, listed more or less in decreasing order of priority.
- Some TODO items are implicit from received email. See file BACKLOG.
-
- (One more word. This list already existed when I took over the task
- of maintaining sharutils. I have not investigated the list enough
- to say this will also be correct for me. But Franc,ois and I often
- agree so it is likely.)
-
-
- .# Next release
- The next release will have these changes:
- . + better integrate uucode with the others, code-wise
-
-
- .@ ChangeLog
-
- .* Short term
- . + Utiliser guillemets franĪais dans fr.tt
- . + convert uucode documentation into sharutils.texi
- . + remove many fixed limits, everywhere
- . + delete useless code, among which some matching features
- . + simplify further `:' vs `true' usage, the latter might be avoided
- . + remsync matters
- . - documentation
- The documentation is still rudimentary, but might help you to
- understand what is going on. Many examples in some quick start
- node might help. In any case, criticize it at will, and let me
- use your comments as an incentive for further improvement. Any help
- from native English speakers is appreciated.
-
- Carefully ensure that you have a backup of your synchronized trees
- before your tries of remsync. It does work for me, but who knows if
- it will not be dangerous in your particular setup.
-
- White lines, and lines beginning with \`#\', are comments. Command
- keywords may be abbreviated to their first letter. Space between
- successive keywords may be omitted. Variable arguments may often be
- replaced by numeric index from lists. SITE may also be local or 0.
- SITE_SET is a list of SITE, default is all. A ! prefix complements it.
- The following commands are meant for automatic internal use:
- . - handle receving files over symbolic links or directories
- . - maintain a project title
- . - no remote could also be local
- . - diagnose /net/mnt_tmp/... directories
- . - if deleting a scan, already registered files declared unexisting
- . - have a paranoid option, in which diffs are always done
- . - study if and how the symbolic links might be transported
-
- .* Medium term
- . + integrate remsync script and documentation
- . + have -C as synonymous for -d in shar
- 1994-08-22, Karl Berry <kb@cs.umb.edu>
- . + speedup unshar, far too slow while matching sed input
- . + construct some `make check' for shar/unshar
- . + do something sensible with file permissions
- . + study if the symbolic links might be transported
- . + when local/remote directories are relative, this should be to ~user
- . + do not send absolute files
- . + add some `-h UNSHAR.HDR' option
- 1994-08-19, Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
- . + decode options from a SHAR environment variable
- 1994-08-30, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@ira.uka.de>
- . + remsync matters
- . - have a command to rename a remote while keeping all its values
- . - do something sensible with file permissions
- . - qualify each scan with destination sites
- . - emacslisp/menage.el to omit, have it reconstructed automatically instead
- . - have an equivalence system for email addresses
- . - avoid computing checksums for ignored files
- . - have a master directory for .remsync's, have them located elsewhere
- . - have a recursive mode finding all .remsync's in tree
- . - provide encryption hooks, so people can use e.g. PGP or rot13 :-)
-
- .* Long term
- . + automatically retrieve in correct sequence from a bunched file
- 1994-08-24, Karl Berry <kb@cs.umb.edu>
- . + when -T, just reject binary files
- 1994-08-29, Andrew A. Chernov <ache@astral.msk.su>
- 1994-09-11, Eric Backus <ericb@lsid.hp.com> -- disagrees
-